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ChildShackles

By Derek T. Dingle | Published February 24, 2012 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

Middle Passage Shackles (wrought iron), c. pre-1863 Ankle shackles of the type used to restrain enslaved people aboard ships crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas.

Middle Passage Shackles (wrought iron), c. pre-1863

Ankle shackles of the type used to restrain enslaved…

Courtesy of National Museum of African American History & Culture